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Char Cloths

Lovely clear night last night so we got outside and made char cloths from old clothes,best night in a long time,and scouts were blown away with the end results.
Whats not to love standing outside with a cuppa and a few fires.

how they work...adiabatic compression. for some reason that has stuck in my head from school. what it means, well thermodynamics is dull and the brain cells no longer what they used to be so I'll leave it at that

My Scouts, and my wife's Brownies, were impressed with the fire piston I got for Christmas one year. I'm beginning to get a reputation for a pyromaniac collection of ways of starting conflagrations. Our PLs routinely produce fire steels in preference to matches. Although the bow I have is not good, and I need to try that with a decent one (recommendations welcome).

I'm afraid I cheated and bought char cloths on eBay. I really should do that properly.